11-11-11

I scrapped a layout of my day on 11-11-11

... I'm 43 years old
.... I’m the mother of 3 teenagers
...I''ve been married  for 7,401 days
...I woke up to the alarm instead of before it

...I stayed in my pj's until 11
...I posted a special 11-11-11 challenge in our forum
...it was a hat day
...I loaded the dishwasher and picked up the kitchen
...I quality checked some kits for the store
...I went on a lunch date with my husband

...I cut out some vinyl lettering for our ward Super Saturday
...I wore my Levi jacket because it was chilly
...I made plans for Thanksgiving dinner at our house
...I had a little bit of a cough

... I received some prized military
photos of my grandfather
 from my aunt

...I helped my sister in law with
 a craft project
...I talked to my sister on the phone
...I made halibut for dinner - it was yummy!
...I let my boys hang out with their friends

Veteran's Day

I received some great photos from my aunt today of my grandpa Evers as he served in the military.  He was in the Army first and then when the Air Force was created, he joined the Air Force.  He was in the military much of his life and I'm proud of him and my other grandfather for serving our country.  My dad was also in the military for 4 years when I was just a baby.  I was able to get these two great pages scrapped with the information that my aunt sent me.

The top picture of my Grandpa George Evers was taken when he was getting ready to leave for Morocco in 1956 for a year.  The family moved to Minden at that time to be close to family - Terri was 4 years old, Ron was 11 and my Dad (Bob) was 10.  The bottom picture is Grandpa and Ron in 1945.   

Grandpa enlisted in the Army Air Corps on August 19, 1940 at Fort Crook, Nebraska.

He later joined the U.S. Air Force.  He retired at Hanscom A.F.B., Massachusetts in

1962.  He served 21 years.

The letter reads:

Dear Mother & Dad,

I received your letter today and it did seem good to hear from home.  I heard from Jo and Ray this past week.  They were all pretty good.  There is one thing I wanted to tell you first of all if you should happen to see Bert Anderson, Harold Neveile, or Carl Hemje some time, if they should get a letter from the FBI or the Intelligence Dept, or from the Army concerning me, just to tell them what ever they think.  You see I put their names on my personal history form that is to be filed withe the War Department allong with my other records.  I’ll never never know what they put down, but I hope they put down whatever they think.  I got another vaccination for Yellow Fever today, there wasn’t to much to it so far.  I got the shaving stick OK.  I have used it several times.  It seems to work pretty good when you can get good hot water, but we don’t always have that here.  They are ready to turn out the lights so I’ll have to close this now and get some rest, I’ll try again Later.  Love, Geo.

Halloween with the Termite-inator

This year for Halloween, Sean helped with the Chamber of Commerce Trunk or Treat in Salem.  He got his spider rings (because that's what is appropriate for a pest control guy to give out on Halloween), but he didn't inform me until 10 minutes before he had to leave that he also was supposed to dress up.  So, we quickly pulled out the Albert Einstein wig from wax museums of the past and decked him out with his Zap hard hat and bright yellow Zap vest.  He said, "I'll just carry my hammer drill and I can be the Termite-inator." Very funny honey!

Travis went out with his friends, Tyrel's friends came here, Trevin went with one of his friends, and I stayed here to hand out candy.  At 9:00, I turned out the lights, closed the blinds, and ignored the doorbell the rest of the night.

Family Photos

Those that have been following my blog for a while, know that every October, we get our family pictures taken.  My wonderful neighbor Amber was kind enough to come shoot the family and the pictures of Sean and I and then I did the boys.  This year we went to the road by the Shaw's house/barn, because I saw that Amber did hers there and I loved the look of it.

McPins and the Bowl Dozers

Tyrel was unofficially in the bowling club last year, so this year, he and his friends decided to join the bowling club.  They have had a ton of fun!  Before their first bowling day, they met and went to WalMart to find "uniforms".  They came back with purple T-shirts, headbands, and iron on letters.  Their team name is the Bowl Dozers and they all have their bowling nicknames on the back of their shirts.  Tyrel's name is McPins.  I thought it would be good practice for him to iron on the letters himself (plus I hate ironing) hence the crooked words on the front.  They are completing their outfits with shorts and soccer socks.  They wear these uniforms to school on Mondays and then go bowling after school.  Tyrel brings home the score sheets and he is usually the winner.   He has always been a pretty good bowler, even when he was really little.  I'm glad he is having fun with it.

Family History Layouts

Thanks for all the kind comments everyone, on here and at church today.  It is a great feeling to know that I was missed.  I'll try to not be such a bad blogger anymore.  The family history challenge at our forum this month was a template challenge with photos of  family members.  I think these will go great as the opposite side to the pages I did last month with all the names on them.  I don't think I ever posted them here, so I'll post them both for you now.  These were so fun to put together and I know it doesn't have all the vital information, but I think they turned out cool.

On Sacred Ground

Sean and I were lucky enough to get two of the only 3000 tickets for the Payson Temple groundbreaking.  At least we thought we were lucky....... We were so excited to go and even more excited that our boys made the choice to get up early that Saturday morning to attend the broadcast of the ground breaking at the Stake Center.  Once we got their, we realized they got the good end of the deal.  Not really, it was really neat to be able to be there for this historic event although it was cold and raining and did I mention COLD!  I couldn't feel my toes by the end of it.  We had our two huge soccer shade umbrellas and our Levi quilt in the car luckily, so that helped us survive.  It was worth it to be there to hear Brother Oaks speak and feel of the blessings that we will receive by having a temple here.  It was also fun to learn that he had spent some of his growing up years in Payson and went to the green church that we went to when we were first married.  We thought it would be good to head to McDonalds for some hot chocolate and breakfast when we were done, but apparently, the rest of the 3000 had the same idea and the line was super long, so we headed home and made hot chocolate there.